Are you planning to update your
computer? Are you replacing that old hard drive with a new one? What do you do
with the old hard drive? Do you really know what’s on your hard drive? Although
you format your hard drive, many of these computers still contain confidential
information including passwords, banking information, social security numbers,
credit card information, health information.and
even deleted information found in the Recycle Bin.
If you are in the HealthCare field then
HIPPA compliancy should be at the top of your list of concerns.
An MIT study conducted by graduate students Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat and published by the
In California vs
Greenwood No. 86-684 , the U.S. Supreme Court
ruled that the right to privacy does not extend to discarded items.
The
answer is to sanitize.
Sanitize
To expunge data from storage media (e.g., disk drives, diskettes, CD-ROMs, and
tapes) so that data recovery is impossible. Sanitizing includes overwriting,
degaussing and destruction. Clearing data does not constitute sanitizing.
To properly sanitize a drive, ALL
data must be removed and overwritten at every addressable location on the
media. An effective solution writes to active and inactive file space, bad
sectors and tracks, the space between the end of a file and the end of a block
or sector, file allocation tables, directories and block maps. This process
assures information is unrecoverable.
We guarantee our Information Assurance and Security Services for the following
Operating Systems.
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Microsoft DOS |
Novell |
Linux |
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Windows
3x + DOS |
FreeBSD |
UNIXWARE |
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Windows
95 / 98 / ME |
BeOS |
HP-UX |
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Windows
NT / 2000 / XP |
SCO UNIX |
IBM OS/2 |
Maintain your data confidentiality!
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